Cindy Crawford - Shape Your Body Workout

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Summary: THIS IS AN AMAZING WORKOUT !!!!!!
Review: I have been waiting forever to find this workout on DVD - FINALLY! I purchased this back in 1992 as a video and it kicked my butt! I was 20 pounds over weight and lost all of it in a month.

I ran sprints for 3 miles a day, biked 1 hour at 18 mph's on a stationary bike and did this video. It improved my strength soooo very much! I don't recommend that you start out doing this tape to the full reps etc. if you are out of shape - start out with no weights at all if you are out of shape and build up.

don't listen to the B.S. that you are hearing that its UNSAFE. learn the exercise first slowly and then do it. I have just purchased it on DVD and can't wait for it to arrive at my door. I just LOVE IT!

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Summary: You want challenge? Workout with Cindy!
Review: Yes! Her workouts are challenging. This video unjustly got hit with negative reviews just because some number of folks, likely VERY out of shape people, showed up at a chiropractor for back injuries. Of course they will have back injuries if they, instead of starting slow, began vigorous exercise routine right away. Some also claim that Cindy is not performing the exercises correctly. If that was the case, don't you think that she would have back injuries as well?

The workouts are designed to give you a nice combo of cardio with weight training. YOU WILL BE SORE each and every time. If you are a beginner you must take it slow. Also, a note for guys: you can use this video too, just use heavier weights.

Have fun with this workout. You WILL shape up.

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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: OK, I have mixed feelings about this workout...like ALL of Cindy Crawfords workouts (The Next Challange, and New Dimension). I have all of them because I think that the workouts are well designed...BUT you have to know something about fitness to do these moves correctly and for the best results. Cindy consistantly does the exercises incorrectly. If you follow her, you may end up injuring yourself. She has had RADU and Kathy Kaehler, both fitness experts, but apparently they did not teach her the value of lifting weights correctly. Cindy also consistantly makes little comments that just annoy me. So, I think that if YOU take it upon yourself to do the moves correctly, this is a great quick supplemental workout, but if you are not sure how to lift weights and are just starting a workout routine, I would try another video first. I do these videos when I don't have time to get to the gym, and I know they have changed my body, but I basically turn it on and do the workout in the way that is best for me. Thanks for reading!

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Summary: Awesome results
Review: I have owned the VHS version of this since it's release in the mid-90's and am so glad to see it offered on DVD. I've noticed a couple of poor reviews for the cheesy video production but it's really not all that bad- I've tried some that were a lot worse. I think Crawford and her trainer offer a down-to-earth style that I can relate to and which makes the workout bearable. It never fails, if I haven't done the workout for awhile and start it back up, I am sore everywhere for days. But the effort is worth it. After giving birth to my son, I was able to get a great body back! The exercises target areas for excellent toning and don't add bulky muscles. I recall not working out for quite some time and noticing that my [...] seemed to have gone completely flat. A few months of this tape was like having a [...]-lift. I've always thought the video was aptly named, "Shape Your Body," delivers.

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Summary: This Video is for guys not exercise
Review: Here is a video I am would recommend to no one. Do not bother recommending this to people you hate, too cruel. From the beginning in the video Cindy does the moves wrong, bending her back wrong, stretching her legs too far, twisting her whole body fast and the list continues. You spend the whole video saying, "Wouldn't that hurt doing the exercise like that?" Actually the beginning starts with one of her Revlon commercials talking about her lips. You later see two more commercials.

Her trainer "Radu... Known as New York's toughest trainer," as described on the video specks too fast, you cannot understand what he is saying, has an annoying voice and talks over Cindy countless times. Because he helped make these workouts it shows he does not know what movements work and which movements hurt you.

Back to Cindy she never says anything like, "good job." She finishes the workouts saying "and that's it." With other videos I always have a smile when I have been working hard and they say "good job." Those words never come out of Cindy's mouth. Also you know when you are getting tired from an exercise and just want to give up? Other videos they encourage you to finish by saying things like "Come on only three more you can do it!" When you hear that you know you can finish. Again Cindy is not encouraging.

Last by not least this video was only made to sell. Cindy claims she has used this workout for two years and I have a hard time believing that. Some excises she does wrong, some hurt you no matter how they are done. She wears what makes her look sexy, her stomach is flat, she has her hair hanging down flopping in her face, The screen goes to black and white so the only white you see are her shoes, socks and bra guess where you look when that happens. Cindy was trained to do this video and never did this workout again I am guessing. Imagine at our time an exercise video of Britany Spears. This is a video more for men who want to see a "sexy super model" workout. Enjoy guys!

I recommend one of the Billy Blanks workout videos instead of this video. Does not matter if it is beginner or advance all of them help. Billy encourages you to work your hardest, he explains the instructions very well, the steps are easy and the movements help you not hurt you.

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Summary: Cheap marketing and nothing else.
Review: It was perhaps very misleading to have Cindy on this video, The fact was in 1992, when she was doing all those Revlon TV adds and fashion shows, she was already in great shape and had been taking care of her body and her health for quite a few years already, she was not using the methods of excercise on this film, she only did this video so that it would sell. She did not need to do these excersises to look great, she already had that. It was just cheap marketing, and nothing else. And it's doubtful these excersizes had any great lasting effects for anyone at all.

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Summary: Great Workout
Review: I have used this tape over the last 10 years to get into shape and stay in shape. It is the best tape out there that I have found to target my stubborn areas, like my love handles. I really see a difference after a few days of using the tape. I have recently stopped working out and am trying to get into shape again, I have pulled out this tape to do it with. I remember being able to get through the workout with 5 lb armn weights, I am back now at 2 lbs!! I know that this tape will get me back into shape in no time. IT REALLY WORKS, ITS HARD BUT AFTER A FEW WORKOUTS IT GETS EASIER AND YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE.

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Summary: A fun effective workout
Review: This really is a great tape. Effective and fun and, both in it's time and now, refreshingly drastically different from anything else out there. It's true, some jerky movements could injure somebody who isn't used to exercise, and the movements are performed fast. But it seems to me fast things or things that use momentum, if done safely, just work the body a little differently, not ineffectively.

The previous reviewer is right on the mark to compare exercise trends to diet trends. Those of us who have followed exercise commentator advice for decades can well imagine how today's trends would have been panned by experts in 1992. There were such exaggerated concerns about balance and people falling and hurting themselves during movements, I recall. Can you imagine the screeching from experts in the past if experts on every new show were telling beginners to do strenthg moves while wobbling on a balance disk or while leaning precariously back on a big ball?! Suddenly it's ok, and recommended, with not a peep from anybody about the safety of it. The point being that just like with the diet end of things, the experts will always be changing their minds.

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Summary: This workout video changed my life
Review: This workout video changed my life. In combination with a diet and workout daily with this routine I lost over 100 lbs and took 10 inches off my waist in about six months. I did this workout daily for over one year and never had ONE injury and my back never even hurt. I find it highly unusual that, as mentioned in the amzon.com review, 12 people with back injuries went to the same chiropractor. I don't know if the fitness "experts" who reviewed this workout are jealous, envious or what. The editor Joan Price mentions in her amazon.com review, "She presents one after another of the exercises that fitness professionals threw out of their routines two decades ago." I imagine exercise routines are just like fad diets. What all the "experts" and professionals considered effective and a must do today is out tomorrow. Remember bran muffins? Eat them or die. Whatever happened to that? Oh, everyone's on Atkin's now. I don't care if the routines in this workout are two decades old. THEY WORK. That's all that matters.

I had never used weights in my life and started off with 5 lbs weights and gradually over the months worked my way up to 15 lbs weights. When you first begin this workout you will not be able to keep up with Cindy. You'll definitely have to pause and rewind a lot when you first start so keep the remote close by. But keep at it and eventually you'll be able to keep pace with Cindy. This is a wonderfully effective workout and as I said before it was a life-changing event for me.